It was just a speck of light. Like oxygen flowing through tired, weary lungs….slowly, barely, hopefully, helplessly. And yet, the light and oxygen never leave the people of God. Sometimes bursting forth, other times glimmering with smaller quantities of air… But always there. Never hopeless. Never destitute. Always Him. Always something, and someone to hold onto. […]
To the child without a mother. I see you. I have held hundreds of you in my arms; black, white, yellow, brown. I have looked into your eyes, and seen the empty void, that only a mother can fill… Yet, she didn’t. I have heard your cries, deep into the night; on this land, but also […]
On wings I ride to the Holy of Holies. We soar, and glide, and rise to the place the glory dwells. Light burst forth and I cannot contain the joy. Weightless. Fully blessed. Up in the air where they see a sight, hear a sound rumbling in heaven. I see His face; gentle, wise, strong. The […]
I almost missed it. No, not the grande display of wondrous, media worthy miracles. Not the heightened emotion or perfect pictures able to display for all to see. Not the life-changing trip, newest purchase, or that moment creating envy, jealousy, or greed…. But the small and the still, and the quiet and the insignificant. Those are […]
He sounds like a seal barking. Deep, low, “whoop whoop”, coming from his mouth, as the weather doesn’t seem to know what it wants from us, yet…. Sun and clouds, rain, the rays. And who knows what’s coming tomorrow? And when our life has no clear forecast, when we can’t play God and pin our plans […]
I despised those first, hundreds of years old trees, cut in early spring. We moved here because we loved nature…. Not because we wanted to see developers cut it down. But a city growing, and prime land, doesn’t appreciate the mother deer and two fawns I saw last year, eating apples from the wild tree, planted […]